Thomaston Accumulation Coffer collaborated with Bristol Adult Education and COCC to advice advance and advise a pilot affairs for the anew formed Adult Education Authority and Certificate (AEDAC) Program. This Cyberbanking Cohort, an important workforce development affairs accessible to learners of the Bristol Adult Education Center, focused on accouterment a collaborative ambience for bookish hands-on training so participants would accept the befalling to get their aerial academy authority as able-bodied as alternation to be able for access akin positions in the cyberbanking industry.

Thomaston Accumulation Coffer and COCC employees, and the agents of the Bristol Adult Education Center donated over 100 hours of time to this initiative, preparing, organizing, scheduling, and presenting the class for this program.

During the summer of 2015, Gina Braley, Assistant Vice President/Training Officer formed with the agents of the Bristol Adult Education Center to advance the class and agenda classes for a three-month cyberbanking cohort. The specialized cyberbanking class classes included entry-level cyberbanking skills, coffer security, cyberbanking laws and regulations, forth with advice abilities to advice participants with resume autograph and job interviews aural the cyberbanking industry.

Phyllis Tucker, Training and Development Specialist, Todd Burton, Assistant Vice President/New Business Development and CRA Officer, Sharon Cossu, Human Resources Generalist, forth with assembly of COCC conducted the training during the three-month program. Eight acceptance accustomed absolute training and developed the abilities all-important to access a position as a coffer teller. All the acceptance were additionally enrolled in either the aerial academy authority or ESL classes at the Adult Education Center.

“I am accustomed to accept been an adviser for the Coffer Teller Training basic of the abatement 2015 AEDAC program. Being able to affect others to accomplish was absolutely a base acquaintance for me. As I watched the graduates accept their certificates of achievement for the program, I saw the huge appulse I had on them and I ambition them all able-bodied as they assignment appear accepting a position aural the cyberbanking industry.” – Phyllis Tucker, Training and Development Specialist, Thomaston Accumulation Bank

A graduation commemoration was captivated at the Bristol Adult Education Center afresh for the eight participants – all were presented with their Workforce Development Certificate for commutual the Coffer Teller hands-on training allocation of the program.

“We were accustomed to participate in the Bristol Adult Education Cyberbanking Accomplice program. Working with our added partners, COCC and Bristol Adult Education, we provided a absolute training affairs that will adapt the acceptance to alpha a career in banking. I absolutely acknowledge the adherence and charge of our agents to accomplish the affairs a success. And it was alarming to see the students’ joy and action aloft admission from the program. We ambition them the best and we will abide to assignment with Bristol Adult Education to ensure they accept opportunities to succeed.” – Stephen Lewis, President and CEO, Thomaston Accumulation Bank

This affairs was adjourned in allotment through the generosity of the Main Street Association Foundation and the McPhee Foundation.

About Thomaston Accumulation BankEstablished in 1874, Thomaston Accumulation Coffer is one of the arch state-chartered alternate accumulation banks in the state. Headquartered in Thomaston, the Coffer operates ten full-service branches throughout western Connecticut. The branches are amid in Bethlehem, Bristol, Harwinton, Middlebury, Terryville, Thomaston (2), Waterbury (2), and Watertown and affairs to accessible two new branches – one in Oakville and one in Bristol – in 2016. The cornerstone of their business aesthetics is architecture continued abiding relationships with barter by accouterment banking casework of the accomplished affection and value. Since 1874, Thomaston Accumulation Coffer has helped abutment the goals, dreams, and approaching of its barter by actual committed to community.

To apprentice added about Thomaston Accumulation Coffer and how they abutment their bounded community, appointment their website: www.thomastonsavingsbank.com.